Reason (Explicit Album Version)-Nas/Emily King

[00:05.05]I see people hating other people [00:08.61]Tell me what's the reason [00:11.86]That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money [00:18.43]What's the reason [00:19.49] [00:20.30]By the time of age nine I'm already decidin' [00:22.30]If I can protect mommy from the hood by fightin' [00:24.24]Or usin' a knife or a gun when I'm twenty-one [00:26.43]By by then them hoods woulda pushed their way in our apartment [00:29.30]And we die then so I been a young nervous wreck in the projects [00:33.24]Watchin' them older ****** pass pot and they high man [00:36.05]I'm just a young boy snot nose hair nappy [00:38.80]Cops ride by squeezin' their trigger fingers at me [00:41.12]So I would go to school and try to get good grades [00:43.49]Teacher wrote mommy and kicked me outta school for havin' braids [00:46.43]So she cussed them said "My son ain't no ************' hoodlum" [00:48.99]They judged us thinking that we dumb 'cause where we come from [00:51.93]Got a little older and now I see [00:53.99]Young ****** wanted by the powers that be (powers that be) [00:57.30] [00:58.74]I see people hating other people [01:03.30]Tell me what's the reason [01:07.36]That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money [01:12.12]What's the reason [01:14.30]For these wars we're fighting with each other [01:19.11]Season after season [01:22.30]When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothing comin' [01:27.43]What's the reason [01:28.31] [01:29.05]Uh picture a Black nanny and a baby in a basket pushin' down 5th Ave [01:32.80]She never had it it's not hers to begin with [01:35.06]She gives it breakfast baths and dinners [01:36.56]Treats it so tender while her own kids live alone at home with no phone on [01:41.37]Ain't had a good meal in so long but so long as mommy's a maid [01:44.87]Cookin' and cleanin' she wanna feed her kids and her kids are dreamin' [01:49.18]Where's my daddy who's my daddy have you seen him [01:51.74]I could imagine them askin' what type of human be-ing [01:54.24]Could leave his family go back to the Carribean [01:57.12]Was he locked up shot up does he have freedom [01:59.68]Mom said wipe your tears keep readin' [02:01.74]But daddy's somewhere spirit broken feelin' defeated [02:04.49]A man feels he has to conquer all [02:06.93]The world is his oyster his pearl so y'all know [02:09.12] [02:10.68]I can't find no reason why we can't all live in peace [02:16.81]'Cause this world keeps spinning yet still I wonder what's the reason [02:24.24] [02:25.05]I see people hating other people [02:29.68]Tell me what's the reason [02:32.80]When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothin' comin' [02:38.24]What's the reason [02:41.06]Oooh-whoa-ooh-whoa [02:41.37] [02:42.18]I know a girl her boyfriend was a fugitive [02:43.80]She's intuitive be on some stupid **** [02:46.18]She called the cops 'cause she hated his mother [02:48.62]Now he away doin' numbers now she gay with her lover [02:51.18]How many ****** gon' die this summer [02:54.00]I pump life in my music but still life is a wonder [02:56.93]There's a officer in a squad car he's a ********** serial killer [03:00.87]It's odd huh 'Cause he's the same cop in church with his wife [03:04.75]He's molestin' his son and she ignores it at night [03:07.31]Little bad ass bastard lights a match and kills Betty Shabazz [03:10.49]In her pad while she slept [03:12.49]They said Prescott Bush funded ****** while the world's in a twister [03:16.68]***** what you expect Imagine what's next [03:20.62] [03:21.43]I see people hating other people [03:23.93]Tell me what's the reason [03:27.12]That your kid is hungry you ain't got no money [03:33.19]What's the reason [03:36.69]For these wars we're fighting with each other [03:39.12]Season after season [03:42.62]When you're workin' hard but there ain't nothing comin' [03:47.75]What's the reason [03:49.94] [03:51.50]"Uh uh man man'll search the whole planet looking for what [03:57.17]Try to conquer all So what To all my ****** with they [04:02.67]Kids that love they kids man All the daddies out there [04:07.10]To all the ****** that died tryin'a figure out what's what [04:11.29]Tryin'a be the biggest of the big you know Yeah yeah [04:16.60] [04:17.42]Ladies forgive us Gotta forgive us For we know not what [04:22.41]We do Breakin' hearts leavin' the crib buggin' out and [04:26.79]**** Just man man